A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 297 King Luo of Huaihe: I am a benevolent king

Jinling.

The long motorcade escorted a large number of treasures and the King of Wei and the nobles of Wei into the city gate, and then headed all the way to the Huai Palace.The people of Jinling City stood beside the road and pointed at the convoy.Sitting in the prison car, King Wei covered his face with his sleeves, facing the pointing fingers of the civilians of Huai State, feeling ashamed and embarrassed.

As a citizen of the Huai Kingdom, today is an eye-opener. I saw with my own eyes that the once aloof King Wei was paraded through the streets like a slave.When King Xuanwu of Huai destroyed Zhou and South Korea, he did not use this humiliating method of parading in the streets to humiliate the Zhou clan and the King of Han.

Of course, this is also the reason why the two Huai Princes have different personalities.

Soon the convoy arrived in front of the Huai Palace. A large number of treasures and noble ladies were sent directly into the palace, while the nobles and King Wei were taken outside the Qianyuan Palace.All the officials and nobles of Huai Kingdom were sitting in the main hall.

After the last rectification, the nobles of Huai Kingdom still had lingering fears.But I am also very curious about the King of Wei.After a while, he saw King Wei being stripped of his crown, dressed in plain clothes, holding a sheep, and being escorted to the main hall by soldiers.

Sheep leading ceremony.

This is the sheep-leading ceremony used by kings of subjugated countries to surrender since the Spring and Autumn Period.Of course, it is different from the sheep-drawing ceremony of the Jingkang Incident in the previous life. Only the monarch has this treatment, and other scholar-bureaucrats and officials have to wear mourning clothes.It's not like being naked in sheep's clothing and being led like a sheep. That's humiliation for the sake of humiliation, not surrender.

The surrender ceremony of the princes and countries either involves naked people holding a sheep, or naked people holding a jade in their hands, but only one arm is bare.

This is the first prince of the princes to be escorted since Huai Wang Luo ascended the throne, so there must be some etiquette.Of course, King Wei will not be the last.

The king of Wei was leading the sheep in plain clothes and was escorted to the main hall. When he saw the high and majestic King Luo of Huai, he immediately knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "The little king pays homage to the king of Huai. The king is willing to surrender to the king." I have sinned, please forgive me, Your Majesty the King of Huai, and spare my life.”

Sun Qian, the prime minister next to him, took a step forward and asked loudly: "King Wei, you were captured because the city was broken, and you did not surrender. How can you forgive me?"

King Wei kowtowed quickly and said with a trembling voice: "King Huai, I was originally going to surrender, but those people beat me to it. King Huai, you have to believe me."

"Xiao Wang was obsessed at first. When the Zhou Dynasty was destroyed, he should have known that the Huai Kingdom had received the destiny, and the Huai Kingdom would unify the world and become the new emperor.

It is Xiao Wang's fault that he did not respect the changes in destiny and did not dedicate the Kingdom of Wei to you as soon as possible. You are a kind king and the son of destiny favored by God. Please forgive Xiao Wang's sins and give him a chance to correct himself. Opportunity, Xiao Wang is willing to obey your will for generations and dedicate everything to you. "

In order to survive, King Wei had no bottom line. He no longer had the so-called kingly aura in his body. He was like a dog wagging its tail begging for food.

Seeing King Wei acting like this, the officials and nobles of the Huai Kingdom couldn't help laughing.King Wei, who had been a prominent figure for hundreds of years, finally fell to this point.It's sad, but not pitiful.These people have resources and knowledge far beyond those of ordinary people but do not use them, and what they end up with today is nothing more than normal.The fate of King Wei must be enough to serve as a warning to future generations.

Immediately King Luo of Huai opened his mouth and said: "What about the nobility of blood? The Zhou family is the blood of King Wu, and King Wei has been prominent for hundreds of years. How about now? It can be seen that no matter how noble the blood is, it can't withstand the unworthy descendants of future generations. They don't know how to adapt, they are indolent, and they are greedy. Enjoy, even a glorious foundation like Bang Zhou’s will eventually disappear.”

"I ordered the Taishi Ling to record all the surrenders of today's Wei kings to warn future generations. If future generations are weak and do not strengthen themselves, today's Wei king will be tomorrow's Huai king."

Hearing Huai Wang Luo's words, Wei Wang's face became even more embarrassed. This is murder and heart-wrenching!Not only must he be humiliated in the main hall, but he must also be recorded in the history books.But even so, King Wei did not dare to be dissatisfied at all, and even breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing what King Huai meant, at least his life was saved.

King Luo of Huai continued: "Destroying the country without stopping sacrifices is an ancient etiquette. In the past, the Zhou Dynasty had a three-ke family system to inherit the descendants of the ancient holy kings for their reproduction and sacrifice. I am a benevolent king and cannot bear the Wei State to stop sacrifices. , today the Kingdom of Wei is destroyed, the title of the King of Wei is removed, and the sacrifices of the Kingdom of Wei are retained. I canonize you as the King of Wei, and grant you three hundred cities for the sacrifices."

The King of Wei breathed a long sigh of relief, and then hurriedly kowtowed and said: "I thank you for your great kindness. Your virtue is as high as that of the ancient saint kings. I and my descendants will be loyal to you for the rest of their lives."

Hearing King Huai say that he was a kind king, the ministers of the Huai Kingdom in the main hall lowered their heads one after another and did not dare to speak.

King Luo of Huai didn't want to give these people food and towns. He was showing mercy by not killing the kings of these countries, and actually rewarded them with food and towns.

However, in order to reduce the will of resistance of the various Xia countries, these measures were necessary.

If King Luo of Huai directly kills King Wei and prevents the descendants of Wei's royal family from offering sacrifices to their ancestors, the resistance of the four kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Yan, and Qi will immediately increase by several levels. Even if Huai is able to defeat these countries, it will inevitably have to pay more. Big price.

If it could reduce the will of these countries to resist and ease the difficulty of Huai's attack, Wang Luo would still be willing to do some superficial work.

After all, after all the vassal states have been attacked and destroyed, there will be no resistance in the world. At that time, you can just find any excuse to cancel all the food towns that were enfeoffed to the states. At that time, what strength will these subjugated kings who have perished in the old countries have to resist? ?
The news that the Huai State conquered the Wei State, retained the Wei State's sacrifices, and enfeoffed the food towns quickly spread throughout the countries.This made the nobles of various countries secretly relieved.At least now it seems that if you can't stop surrendering, there is no risk of life. Luo, the king of Huai, is also a kind king.

If King Luo of Huai knew what these people were thinking, he would definitely laugh out loud, kind king?Soon you will see the kindness of King Huai.

After he began to implement the strategy of conquering other countries and unifying the world, Wang Luo was considering the future system of the Huai Kingdom.He did not intend to implement the feudal system of Bang and Zhou, and he was even less willing to implement the tribal system of Xia and Shang.If these two systems were implemented, why would he bother to attack and destroy other countries?
In fact, a more appropriate system had already been in place in the Huai Kingdom's Tibetan Room.Zijue left behind many books at that time, including stories about the system after he unified the world.When the population is sparse, transportation is inconvenient, and there are many barbarians and Di, it is a good idea to implement the enfeoffment system, as was the case in the Zhou Dynasty.However, after the population prospered, transportation improved, and the army became sharp, it would be inappropriate to enfeoff.

At this time, it is necessary to implement centralized power and adopt the county system.For meritorious ministers, they no longer split the land and enfeoffed the country, but instead used food fiefs.When Luo, King of Huai, was studying in the Cangzang Room, after seeing the system of counties and counties, he decided to wait until the world was unified to implement the system of counties and counties instead of enfeoffing.

(End of this chapter)